32 new takes on Taiwan cinema / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, Wenchi Lin, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu, editor.

Davis, Darrell William, editor.

Lin, Wenqi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Taiwan--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Taiwan.

Motion picture industry--Taiwan.

Motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 514 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Thirty-two new takes on Taiwan cinema

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Summary:

Curating Taiwan Cinema: 32 New Takes covers thirty-two films from Taiwan, addressing a flowering of new talent, moving from art film to genre pictures, and nonfiction. Beyond the conventional framework of privileging "New and Post-New Cinema," or prominence of auteurs or single films, this volume is a comprehensive, judicious take on Taiwan cinema that fills gaps in the literature, offers a renewed historiography, and introduces new creative force and voices of Taiwan's moving image culture to produce a leading and accessible work on Taiwan film and culture. Film-by-film is conceived as the main carrier of moving picture imagery for a majority of viewers, across the world. The curation offers an array of formal, historical, genre, sexual, social, and political frames, which provide a rich brew of contexts. This surfeit of meanings is carried by individual films, one by one, which breaks down abstractions into narrative bites and outsized emotions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-497) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472220397

047222039X

9780472907403